Handling-horse for shoe-uppers



M. VA. HAYWARD.

HANDLINGHORSE FOR SHOE UPPERS.

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MARTIN A. HAYWAnDguoF ELMWoon. MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLING-HORSE FOR SHOE-UPPERS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV, V16; 1920 Application filed February 28, 1920. Serial No. 362,160.

To all whom it may conce/m Be it known that I, MARTIN A. HAYWARD, a citizen of the United States, tresiding at Elmwood, in the county of Plymouth, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful :[mprovementinv Handling-Horses for Shoe-Uppers, of which the following is a speciication, referencey being hand therein tothe accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation tov appliances employed in boot and shoe`making, and. in

Vparticular to the so-called handlingor. carrying-horses which are employed in shoe Vfactories for receiving, holding, transporting, or storing, in or case of shoes. u

A so-called handlin'g-horsevor carrying` horse comprises, in brief, a pair of parallel arms uponv which the uppers are placed, sometimes with the rights upon one arm, the lefts upon the otherl as fast as any given operation uponthe uppers -niay :be-'pen pairs,the'uppers for a lot -formed.. T he complete lot or/case of uppers having been received uponthe arms ofthe horse,the'freefextremities of saidfarms are vsha'ckled together so as to preventescape'of uppers .from the arms, and the loaded and closed horse is transported totherequired .point,-the` uppers remainingl st-ackedY thereon vuntil removed by a=workman for the performance of the nextfoperation. inL Vcon-nec- `tionf therewith'. Y

Inl practice heretofore, in order' to. retainV uponwthe upper-carryingarms the uppers which have been placed upon them, the ends of the saidV arms havey been connected Vtogether i'n different modes. lDifferent forms ofshackles or retainers have been. employed,

and various locking devices and expedients in connection 'with such' shackles orV retainers, have been devised.- also. Such modes and contrivances `have been found vdecient in -certain respects, and'consequently hai/snot proved entirely satisfactory. One material deficiency has been a liability to unshackling or releasing of the extremities of the arms, permitting escape or loss of uppers from the latter. In thejcaserof certaingofY the said shackles orretainers the grasp of the handA of a person in picking up Yor carrying the loaded horse, quite naturally encircling both arms at a point above'thetopmost of the uppers thereon,r and tendingto press the extremities ofthe arms inwardtoward each other,very frequently releases the armsfrom arms is practically impossible.

the engaging device when such result is not that thegworkman has been liable to take h old 0f, orl otherwise Inove,fthe locking Ydevice in lifting' the loaded horse, andthereby unlock-the arms unintentionally. i

tion is to remedy the deficiencies of devi-ces heretofore employecl for shackling together the, extremities of the arms. ofa handlinghorse, and-for locking such arms in' s'hackl'ed conditionv MoreV particularly, 'an object is to provide in. connection with the armsv and their shackle or `retainerfa Alocking. contrivance of such a nature that accidentalv or unintentional unlocking and release of the The 'invention consists in theA combination in aV handling-horse having' itsop'plosite' arms formed withjreduced' p-or'tionsfiadj'acentf the free ends thereof, and'ja Vshackle' or retainer l`hev general object of the Apresent inven-r having holes throughuwhichjthe' extremities of said arms' maybe passed, Yand'havingV also slots which lead away: from]v said sA and into which the reduced portions of the arms may enter byl transverse Inovement from said holes ",fof a stem between sai-'d `holes,Al`

and a locking-member movable along lstem and adapted'to'. engage with/said' arms to lock them in.th e`slotls,said stem havinga stop for said locking member so: located that it prevents thelatter'from separating bodily' from the shaekleor retainer to' an extent equal to the exit-ent of Jproj'ectionl of thecndportions of thel arms?'beyond the shackle or retainer- The said locking inember, thus limited in the extent of'itsf separation bodily'from the shackle or retainer, is

`adaptedto be tilted'relative to thestem. to permit the arms tol bepr'e's'sed'alternately along the slots into the holes to permit vtheir withdrawal from theshackle or retainer.-

The preferred embodiment ofmy device is shown in lthe accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspectivevieuv of af loadtainer, through which the shackle or retainer.

who is utilizing thesame. Y whichuppers are placed upon the arms" 1,

ing horse mounted in upright position upon a support therefor, it being shown" as hav-v lng locking means according to the present invention combined with its arms and its Fig. 2 is a plan View of ner in which the lockingmeans prevents the arms from being moved inwardl into the holes in the shackle or retainer. Y

Fig. 3" is a side elevation vof theparts which are shown in Fig. 2, in the same relations as in Fig. 2. Y Y ,l

Fig. 4 is an end elevation oi same.

of the procedure in disengaging the shackle or retainer from the arms.

Fig.l 6 is a plan-view of the shackle or retainer, ywithits hook, stem, and locking Vdevice removed.- 'Y Y l Fig, 7 isa detail view in section on line 7--7 of Fig. 2, on Va larger scale than the preceding iigures. Y Y Y Y j The horse shown/in Fig. 1 is made of a length of heavy spring wire bent upon itself into elongated U-form, it comprising the two long, substantially parallel, arms 1, 1, at the lower ends of which horizontal Jfootportions 121, extendtoward eachother and `are unitedina stem 1C which is made by twisting uponY itself the middle .portion of the said `length ofwire. The said stem,

in Fig. 1, is designed to `be enteredinto asocket'ld in a floor 1", or

as indicated bench or other-support, to hold the horsein upright position adjacent the workman TheA manner .in

.1, andpiledfup in stacks thereon, isreprelsented in dotted lines in Fig. 1. .c

At 1a, 1, are the reduced portions ofthe reeupper extremities of the said arms, and at 2 is the shackle or retainer. At 3, 3,'are` theV holes through the said vshackle orreupper extremities ofthe arms 1, 1, are Vadapted to be passed in applying the shackle or retainer tothe arms or removing it therefrom, andk at 4,' 4, are theslots extending transversely V.away

r.from the said holes'3, 3, and Vdesigned to be occupied .byV the reduced portions 1a, 1a.

1 fthe holes 3, 3, are

TheY said slots4, 4, are of awidth less than the diameterothe holes 3, 3, but1 whilev v`adaji tedto accommodate the reduced dportions 1a, 1%, are too `narrow to admit .thel large portionsof the said arms above and below. Y In this instance,A formed close together f the said reduced portions.

nearthe middle oi the length of the shackle wardly Jfrom` the respective holes, toward the respective ends oi the shackleor rethe parts the l Vupper end of the horse, showing the man;-

Fig. 5 is a side elevation showing one step Y *cated in Figs. 1 and Y Vherembefore, is located at' such a distance -or retainer. Y

A ter the application of -t'hel shackle 101'V retainer to the arms 1, 1,'by inserting such 3, and `meved "hole until the locking 'member is especially manipulated in a manner to permit. The fstopl V8 lprevents the lockingmember from j assuming a position in which both arms are 'the stop, @therewith Y lunlocking and removal or retainer,'between the two`holes 3, 3, its upper portion being formed into a suspensory hook 6a, by means of which the horse may be hung upon a convenient support. for instance, in storing the same with a load of uppers thereon.

At 7 lis the locking instance a disk which is formed with a centralhole fitting Vsomewhat loosely the lower part of the stem 6. The said locking Vdevice 7y is mounted upon the said stem above the shackle or retainer 2, and Vis movable to a limited extent vertically upon the said stem. At 8 is the stop with which as aforesaid the stem is provided to limit the extent ofthe movement ofthe locking devicev upward away 'from the shackle or re tainer. This stop is formed in the present instance by flattening the stem at opposite sidesthereof, so that portions .of metalV which are displaced by the 'said flattening, project at opposite sides of the stem as indi- 4. This stop, as stated from the shackleor'retainer Vthat it prevents the locking member from separating bodily A ,romthe shackle or retainer to an extent equal to the extent of projection of the endportions of the arms 1, 1, above the shackle armssuccessively into holes 3, 3, the spring of the-'arms causes them to spread apart and Vto retain the separated relation shown in Fig. 1' with their reduced portions'at the .l outerfends of the-slots4, 4. j The shoulders onfthe said arms below and above lthe -shackle.

.orrctainer prevent movement .of the latter either downward or upward along the arms.' Consequently ment cannot occur. The lockingrmember sequence of being of'a diameter somewhat greater than the1 distance between thetwo holes 3,3, it prevents the arms from being moved farther inward than in Figs.` 2 and consequently neither arm canbe from its slot into the corresponding unlockedsimultaneously, either in easel the said member is thrown accidentally against or in case it is moved into contact by hand. In order to eiiect the of the shackle or retainer, Lit is necessary member soras to clear the extremity of one farm 1, asin Fig. 5, which will permit such farm to be moved. inward intovthe adjoining hole 3 and withdrawn therethrough,4 and displacement or disengage-l to move the locking fmemberup to the' stop and vthen tiltv suchl or retainer, and the slots 4, 4, extend outdevice, it being in this vintervenes between the two arms, and in conthen tilt the lockingmember in'tliereverse I be released and withdrawn.

As will be apparent, the application of the r shackle or retainer to the arms l, l, is effected by an inverse series of operations, which will be understood from the foregoing. l

Vhat is claimed as the invention is,-

lfln a handling-horse, the combination with opposite arms having reducedV portions adjacent'the free ends thereof, of a shackle having holes through which the extremities of said arms may be passed, and having also slots leading away from said holes and into which the'said reduced portions of the arms may enter by transverse movement from said holes, a stem, and a locking member movable along said stem and adapted to engage with said arms to lock them in the slots, said stem havinga stop for said locking member limiting the bodily movementA member adapted to be tilted relative to the stem to permit the arms t6 be pressed alternately along the slots into the holes to unlock the shackle and permit removal of the same.

2. In a handling-horse, in combination,

outwardly extending slots in which the said reduced portions of' the arms may be reportion of the said shackle, a locking washer movable upon said stem, and a stop limiting the extent to which the said washery MARTIN A. HAYWARD.

Witnesses I f NATHAN'B. DAY! Cms. F. RANDALL.

tained, a stem rising from the intermediate 

